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Facebook's big problem: ethical blindness
2014-06-30 20:22:48| InfoWorld: Top News
When you agreed to Facebook's terms and conditions, did you know you were agreeing to become a subject in a psychology experiment?
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David Suzuki accuses Tony Abbott of wilful blindness to climate change
2013-09-24 05:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Environmentalist David Suzuki has attacked the Coalition's climate change policies, calling for a legal penalty to be imposed for "wilful blindness' in leaders who commit the "crime' of ignoring climate change. Suzuki, a Canadian academic visiting Australia, told the ABC's Q&A on Monday night that the government's decision to disband The Climate Commission -- which has since been resurrected as a privately funded body -- was "very dangerous'. "Human beings have become so powerful that we are...
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Merck Applauds Colombia for First PAHO/WHO Verification of Elimination of River Blindness
2013-07-29 23:01:00| Merck.com - Corporate News
Dateline City: WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J. Historic Milestone Reflects Successful Collaboration Among MECTIZAN Donation Program and Partners WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, applauds the government of Colombia whose work with the MECTIZAN Donation Program and The Carter Center-sponsored Onchocerciasis Elimination Program for the Americas led to todays Pan American Health Organization, the World Health Organizations Regional Office for the Americas (PAHO/WHO), verification of Colombia as the first country in the world to eliminate the transmission of river blindness (onchocerciasis), using MECTIZAN (iv Language: English Contact: MerckLainie Keller, 908-423-4187 Ticker Slug: Ticker: MRK Exchange: NYSE read more
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In denial: Corporate America's blindness to gender discrimination
2013-05-25 13:43:09| Biotech - Topix.net
My client knew the lawsuit was coming. The employee had threatened to sue her employer just about every day.
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Magnetically steerable, injectable microrobots could help treat blindness
2013-05-13 18:42:01| Extremetech
Researchers from the Institute of Robotics in Zurich, have recently developed an electromagnetically-controlled robot that can be positioned in the eye to deliver drugs. By coating their microbot with dye-containing nanospheres, the researchers have now re-purposed the device to also provide critical measurements of oxygen concentration in the eye to make quick diagnoses.
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